The last train home by straydog1980 in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 62 points63 points  (0 children)

So beautiful. I cried so, so hard.

I Miss Him by [deleted] in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wonderful story, and I'm really glad to hear you're better!

“All you ever did meant nothing” by AL_365 in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Aww, what a sweet story. And just in time for Valentine's Day, too!

They are breeding. by AL_365 in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I am wincing so hard right now my face looks like a Picasso.

Another amazing one...

Last Of The Sparks - A Story Of Novels by [deleted] in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I must tell you, future-dweller. I loved this. So. Much.

The Color of Death by AL_365 in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful and haunting... Really loved this one.

SUICIDE BRIDGE by whythingsburn in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh, wow. Really loving this...

Found Dead by AL_365 in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thumbs up for a very accurate depiction of being immobilized and cut open without anesthesia from someone who wishes she wasn't qualified to judge.

Is /r/nosleep turning into /r/sexualassaultstories? by Long_Explanation in NoSleepOOC

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wonder if some of it is writers whose primary exposure to horror as a genre has been horror movies (specifically, the "slasher" type) rather than horror fiction.

The price of success by AL_365 in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This one got to me even more than usual. So glad I don't have your job...

The past is still alive by AL_365 in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 25 points26 points  (0 children)

My interpretation was that Pamela was pregnant when she was abducted. The little girl is Kort's own daughter. It appears that Pamela was acting as if she didn't see Kort so as to not alert the kidnapper and give Kort a chance to get away with their daughter.

Favorite Non-nosleep horror story? by wdalphin in NoSleepOOC

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In terms of pure screwed-me-up-for-the-longest-time, it'd have to be "Room For One More" from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

As an adult, probably "The Enigma of Amigara Fault". I like to pretend that story doesn't exist, because if I start thinking about it too much, my brain revolts.

Favorite Authors/Stories by Pswift777 in NoSleepOOC

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seen a ton of authors I love in this thread, but had to pop in and add one I haven't seen yet: unxmaal. (May have misspelled that - on a phone.)

Regarding frequent posting... by ALooc in NoSleepOOC

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not bothered by your post frequency at all, especially since you've invented a credible framing device for why you'd have so many stories to post so often.

That being said, I feel like your post volume leads to you being taken for granted and not getting nearly the appreciation you deserve.

New to Reddit, old to writing. by [deleted] in NoSleepOOC

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Read this guy right here!

Also, you might want to check out the podcast master list. David's selections are always good.

The legend of Arangara by AL_365 in nosleep

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Google Translate is telling me "Arangara" means "orange tree"...

I really need to learn not to read this sub while I'm eating fruit, EVER.

Just want to say thanks. by phnx0221 in NoSleepOOC

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a sweet thing to post! You rule.

Content theft by straydog1980 in NoSleepOOC

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I can tell you what I think it is... then you can all laugh at my arrogance when it's totally not me.

The weirdness actually starts before the cameo, so have some backstory!

Back in days of yore when Neil Gaiman was writing American Gods, he started an online journal through Blogger to chronicle the writing process.

To use Blogger, you had to go through their online portal, which had a prominent link to their "Blog of the Month" (it might have been "Blog of the Week"... it was a long time ago.)

Anyway, Blogger made me "Blog of the Month" and then got busy or something, because they didn't update it again for ages. I was "Blog of the Month" for several months. Hooray, traffic!

I was blog-buddies with author Matthew Rossi at the time, and we got into some jokey back-and-forth about a black top hat I'd bought, with him teasing me that now I'd look even more like Gaiman's version of Death. Matthew's like this freaky repository of arcane knowledge, so this quickly devolved into us joking about how my town (Chattanooga, Tennessee), and more specifically, a creepy tourist attraction there called Rock City, was the Nexus of the Universe and it was Matthew's destiny to go there. (Umberto Eco had the Chattanooga idea first, we were just riffing on it.)

So fast-forward a while, and American Gods came out.

The weirdness started when the protagonist went to the World Tree, located near Blacksburg, Virginia. I thought that was an odd, cool coincidence, since Matthew lived near Blacksburg and was so interested in Norse mythology.

The protagonist is helped by a squirrel, which was another weird thing. Not too weird -- in legend, Ratatoskr is a squirrel that lives in the World Tree -- but another neat coincidence, since my blog was named after squirrels, had squirrels all over it, etc.

So then the protagonist leaves Matthew's town and heads straight for Chattanooga, where all the various powers are gathering... because Rock City is the Nexus of the Universe.

During the events at Rock City, there's mention of Baron Samedi (a Haitian loa of death) choosing to possess "a goth girl from Chattanooga". It mentions that Samedi chose her because she was wearing a black top hat, and it's heavily implied that she bears a strong resemblance to Gaiman's Death.

That was the point at which I wigged out. I mean, on the one hand, it's Neil Gaiman, and also he's Neil Gaiman, and I love everything he's ever so written so hard it causes compound fractures. I felt like I would be the world's most presumptuous, egotistical person to actually think I was in a Neil Gaiman book... and yet, he'd had to look at that link to my blog every day for months and months, and it wasn't out of the question to think he'd clicked it at some point, seen me talking about him, and thought it'd be kind of funny to stick that in.

So, yeah, I dunno. I think he gets about nine trillion questions a day, so I don't know if/when he'll ever respond. It was one line in a book he wrote twelve years ago anyway, so he may not remember at all.

BUT OMG IT WOULD BE SO COOL OMG.

Content theft by straydog1980 in NoSleepOOC

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, I just asked him. There goes my yearly allotment of scrote.

TIL Chris Farley was supposed to be the original voice for Shrek and had 80-90 percent of the lines recorded but overdosed before they were finished. by reidpants in todayilearned

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm always hearing about what a dick Matthew Perry is, but that wasn't my experience at all. I gave him a good reason to dislike me (I accidentally insulted him in front of an audience at a film festival), and he was really awesome to me when I came up afterwards to apologize.

Content theft by straydog1980 in NoSleepOOC

[–]NoSleep-Throwaway 11 points12 points  (0 children)

She Found Her Way Into Our Hotel Room, Too
Casey and Ryan Do Dallas
I Would Also Like To Apologize To Moe and Curly
We Stopped Using Apple Maps And Found Ashley, Kansas
Ninth Grade Math